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    Jeremy Bentham (/ˈbɛnθəm/; 4 February 1747/8 O.S. [15 February 1748 N.S.] – 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded...
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  • "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham" is the seventh television episode of the fifth season of ABC's Lost. The 93rd episode of the show overall, it aired...
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  • Charles Widmore makes contact with Locke, provides him with the alias "Jeremy Bentham", and assigns Matthew Abaddon as his assistant to find the survivors...
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  • The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham is a series of volumes under production at the Bentham Project which, when complete, will form a definitive edition...
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    Panopticon (category Jeremy Bentham)
    control, originated by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The concept is to allow all prisoners of an institution...
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  • Yorkshire Bentham (surname) → Jeremy Bentham, 18th century English philosopher and founder of modern Utilitarianism Bentham (One Piece), a character in...
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    sibling of philosopher Jeremy Bentham, with whom he had a close bond. Samuel Bentham was one of two surviving children of Jeremiah Bentham. His father was an...
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  • philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) for calculating the degree or amount of pleasure that a specific action is likely to induce. Bentham, an ethical...
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  • elaborated in the 18th and 19th centuries by legal philosophers such as Jeremy Bentham and John Austin, who argued that a law is valid not because it is intrinsically...
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    Black's Law Dictionary. The term "judge-made law" was introduced by Jeremy Bentham as a criticism of this pretense of the legal profession but acceptance...
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  • Bentham, Jeremy. "Anarchical Fallacies" (PDF). p. line. 229. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2012. Bentham, Jeremy...
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  • Hedonism (section Bentham)
    the idea that pleasure is the highest good and later was revived by Jeremy Bentham. Ethical hedonist theories can vary in relation to whose pleasure is...
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    salt, nuts, seeds, roots, pine bark, and urushi tea. In the 1830s, Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, left instructions to be followed upon...
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    the Enlightenment by the utilitarian and social-contract philosophers Jeremy Bentham and Cesare Beccaria. Their interests lay in the system of criminal justice...
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    February 1825, from the poet Thomas Campbell to the MP and follower of Jeremy Bentham, Henry Brougham. Campbell had visited the university at Bonn in today's...
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  • particular attempts of happiness without the interference of society. Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) was a British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer....
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  • Utilitarianism (category Jeremy Bentham)
    often defined in terms of well-being or related concepts. For instance, Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, described utility as the capacity of...
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  • results in that specific situation. Classical utilitarians, including Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick, define happiness as pleasure...
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    during this time he wrote and published The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) is well known for beginning the tradition of classical utilitarianism...
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  • Corporation Jeremy Bamber, English multiple murderer Jeremy Bentham, English legal reformer and philosopher Jeremy Curl, English explorer Jeremy Dear, English...
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    theorist Jeremy Bentham "originally printed in 1780, and first published in 1789." Bentham's "most important theoretical work," it is where Bentham develops...
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    Bentham was born in Stoke, Plymouth, on 22 September 1800. His father, Sir Samuel Bentham, a naval architect, was the only brother of Jeremy Bentham to...
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    consequence, it is always morally wrong to create more sentient beings. Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832): English author, jurist, philosopher, and legal and social...
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  • degree-awarding powers) by founders inspired by the radical ideas of Jeremy Bentham, UCL was the first university institution to be established in London...
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    proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by his predecessor Jeremy Bentham. He contributed to the investigation of scientific methodology, though...
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  • Five Types of Ethical Theory. Older usage of the term goes back to Jeremy Bentham, who coined it prior to 1816 as a synonym of dicastic or censorial ethics...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Panopticon is a prison design by Jeremy Bentham (1786). Panopticon may also refer to: Britannia Panopticon or The Panopticon...
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    the English language. It was coined by the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham in his An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation,...
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    Timothy L. S., ed. (2017) [1968]. "Jeremy Bentham to Samuel Bentham, 15 Feb. 1776". The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham: Volume I: 1752–76 (PDF). London:...
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  • born by the same stern law, / Suffer like me, and like me also die." Jeremy Bentham was the first Western philosopher to advocate for animals' equal consideration...
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